Ryefield Models M1240A1 M-ATV

[scottie3158]

Bob,
That looks the nuts mate very nicely done indeed.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers mate.

[adt70hk]

Good morning gents :smiling3:

I finally got on with some weathering over the last few evenings, in fact I got the first two stages done. I don't think I mentioned this before but my vision for this vehicle is that it's been out in the Afghanistan desert for a long time during the rainy Winter/Spring periods. In other words, Dirty!

First up was spraying the entire model with three tones of clay wash, which left it looking like this.




The majority of this was then removed with a damp brush, leaving lots of ingrained dirt and streaks behind. The front end was cleaned off a little more as I wanted it to look a bit more sand blasted from driving through the desert. This was followed up by a very thin oil wash round the bolts, fittings, greeblies, etc.





It does look quite stark now, but this will be followed up with a metallic dry brushing over a few areas, and then an overall sand pigment scrub which will lighten everything up.

Unfortunately that will have to wait a week or so, the dinging room table is apparently needed for Christmas dinner, so everything is getting packed up tonight.

Coming on nicely Bob!!! Looking very dirty.

ATB.

Andrew

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Andrew.

[Jack L]

Beyond good Bob!

[minitnkr]

Love the result.

[Jim R]

Hi Bob
That's a great look you've got there.

First up was spraying the entire model with three tones of clay wash

I've not heard of that before. Does the clay wash just clean off/streak with water?
Jim

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers gents.

Jim, that's exactly right. The water reactivates the clay and it come right off. You could actually power wash it completely clean with water in an airbrush.

[Tim Marlow]

That looks great Bob. What make are the clay washes? Florries perhaps? Looks like a worthwhile tool in the armoury.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Tim.

Yep, Flory washes. Dark dirt lightly over everything, Grime around the lower parts then a couple of coats of Sand over the top and sides.

[Jim R]

Thanks Bob
That clay wash is certainly effective. As Tim says it does look useful. When you're happy I suppose it has to be sealed in with a coat of varnish.
Jim

[Mr Bowcat]

Not necessarily Jim, as long as it stays dry it will stay put.

[Steve Brodie]

Looking Superb

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Steve.

[Mr Bowcat]

Afternoon all.

After a fairly horrendous start to the year I finally got back to the bench this week. This build was pretty much done bar fitting the last few bits, but one job was to sort out the PE ratchet straps, which turned out to be a massive pain in the rear end. With those done I got the stowage installed and strapped down.




With that done I glued on the last few bits, finished pics here.